Civil Service & Public Sector

State and Local Public Finance provides a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of state and local government public finance practices and issue...

Steep socioeconomic hierarchy in post-industrial Western society threatens public health because of the physiological consequences of material and ...

The Police Misconduct Complaint Investigations Manual provides a timely and unique, step-by-step approach to conducting or reviewing police miscond...

The public sector currently employs around 40 percent of all union members in the United States. Pressures for cost-effective and quality governmen...

The public sector seems to be in the early stages of a profound transition, similar in scale to the transformation of private sector industrial rel...

How do we conceive of policy and political studies? To what extent should our science be ‘normative’ or ‘objective’ or ‘positive’? Who are our audi...

In the 1990s, considerable changes in the political and social world have impacted on the character of both public and private organizations. At a ...

The Inland Revenue (1965) examines the organization and functions of the UK’s Inland Revenue Department as they stood at the beginning of 1965. The...

This book compares contemporary civil service systems across East and Southeast Asia, a dynamic region of greater diversity in local administrative...

Industrial Action (1976), written by an experienced active trade unionist, brings valuable real-world examples to an examination of the many facets...

First published in 1998, this volume examines how super-optimum decisions involve finding alternatives to controversies whereby Conservatives, Libe...

Public enterprises have played a central part in the development of all mixed economies in the post-war period, but they are now in a crisis phase....

This book compares contemporary civil service systems across East and Southeast Asia, a dynamic region of greater diversity in local administrative...

In the public sector inspection regimes and performance targets provide a powerful and dominant narrative, often placing pressure on professionals ...

This original analysis of the creation of new state forms critically examines the political forces that enabled `more and better management′ to be ...

Widespread sexual harassment in the public sector makes implementing sexual harassment policy a decidedly necessary task. In this book, the authors...

This book, by a group of specially selected scholars, focuses on topics of current debate in the field of public service ethics. The subjects cover...

Through its budgetary, managerial and regulatory review mandates, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the US can function as an "enforcer"...

Through its budgetary, managerial and regulatory review mandates, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the US can function as an "enforcer"...

Inter-organizational collaboration is becoming increasingly significant as a means of achieving organizational objectives in turbulent environments...

Widespread sexual harassment in the public sector makes implementing sexual harassment policy a decidedly necessary task. In this book, the authors...

An innovative contribution to political theory, State Work examines the labor of government workers in North America. Arguing that this work needs ...

Planners hate uncertainty. The objective of their work is to devise a course of action that will reduce uncertainty on a public scale. However, com...

An innovative contribution to political theory, State Work examines the labor of government workers in North America. Arguing that this work needs ...